• Question: As a student at a young age in my early teens i would ask what would you offer as help towards my work and knowledge over sex education and the reproduction system

    Asked by marnekjmh to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Steven Kiddle answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      All I can offer to you is the chance to find the answers to questions that have always interested you.

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      Louise Johnson answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      “Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation” by Olivia Judson and “Mother Nature” by Sara Blaffer Hrdy are really interesting books about the science, and particularly the evolution, of sex and reproduction. Hrdy’s book is mostly about apes and monkeys but Judson’s covers all living things.

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      Michaela Livingstone answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Do you mean if I were a teacher? There are plenty of good tv programs and books on sex education so I’d use those with class discussions, and in terms of the reproduction systems, well best to go with the facts and so forth, plenty of science books about that. I would offer open and factual advice.

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      Yvette Wilson answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I think for anything i would say read as much as you can (from textbooks) about what we know about the biology of the human body and reproduction – and don’t be shy to ask your bio teacher. Something I found really cool was looking at the different strategies that animals and plants have of reproducing. for example, some organisms (some reptiles, insects and invertebrates) don’t need to have their eggs fertilized to reproduce.

Comments

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    shavern869 commented on :

    if you were to quit being a scientist what job would you do next

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    Louise commented on :

    Shavern, that question is interesting enough that you should maybe click the Ask button to make sure everyone sees it!

    I don’t know – I love writing, so in my dream world I would become a science writer! But it’s extremely difficult to make a living like that. So I would probably retrain to do something totally different like become a lawyer.